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A forum for discussing the issues affecting the voluntary and community sector

Our help and guidance content includes step-by-step guides, downloadable templates and interactive tools to help you run your voluntary organisation

Learn about the practical steps you need to take to set up your own organisation

Setting up

Access our guidance to help you decide if you should set up a new charity, voluntary organisation or community group

Setting up

What you need to consider when choosing your legal structure and the main characteristics of different legal structures

Setting up

Find out what charity status is and if you need to register as a charity

Setting up

Coronavirus
Involving volunteers

Read our latest round-up for trustees and governance professionals, with useful sector updates, training courses and written guidance.

Governance

In this edition, Sandy Chidley, senior consultant, spotlights opportunities in impact and evaluation and shares useful evaluation resources and training opportunities

Impact and evaluation

Our survey of more than 10,000 people provides the most detailed analysis of volunteering for a decade

Involving volunteers
Digital and technology

Building on existing work on corporate volunteering, this report looks at employer-supported volunteering through the eyes of the volunteer

Involving volunteers
Employing and managing staff

This round-up will help you to stay informed about our influencing work, and any government policy and funding announcements. For news related to what’s happening in parliament, see our regular inside track round-up.

Government and politics

Governance consultant Sally Stephens shares updates on the Charities Act and the Charity Governance Code, along with some exciting training opportunities for trustees

Governance

We explain what dormant assets are, how they could support communities and how you can help make that happen.

Law and regulation

Government and politics
Responding to crises

Voluntary sector partners joint statement on the cost of living crisis

Government and politics
Responding to crises

Guidance to help you lead or manage people who work remotely

Employing and managing staff

Understand different types of workplace conflict, why conflict happens, and how to resolve it

Employing and managing staff

Employing and managing staff

Why team working is especially important in voluntary organisations

Employing and managing staff

How to develop a set of clear objectives and plans for your team

Employing and managing staff

Tips to help you communicate effectively with your team

Employing and managing staff

Steps you can take to build a positive team culture

Employing and managing staff

Guidance to help you understand the balance of skills, abilities and aspirations in your team, so you can harness them effectively.

Employing and managing staff

Build your understanding of an employers' responsibilities for mental health and wellbeing

Employing and managing staff

Learn how to recognise whether stress is an issue for your organisation, and get tips on how to manage it

Employing and managing staff

Learn Practical tips to ensure you are successful in your funding bid applications.

Get an introduction to data collection methods and practical guidance for evaluating your work

This course will give trustees an overview and understanding of charity governance, regulation and best practice

This practical session will build your awareness of different types of reporting and support you to tell a compelling story through your reporting

This course will develop your skills and help you use a marketing approach to recruit volunteers

This course will equip managers in the voluntary sector with the skills and techniques they need to effectively manage paid members of staff

All voluntary organisations have a duty to keep the people they work with safe from harm. This course introduces the basics of safeguarding within a charity context in England and highlights effective safeguarding practice

This course will introduce processes and tools to help ensure that decision-making is responsive to your environment and focused on the most important issues affecting your organisation

Get an introduction to data collection methods and practical guidance for evaluating your work

This advanced course is specifically for data protection leads or officers in charitable organisations.

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Successful funding applications (0.5 day)

Tools and methods for measuring outcomes (1 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Better impact reporting (0.5 day)

Recruiting volunteers (0.5 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

Tools and methods for measuring outcomes (1 day)

Advanced data protection (2 x 0.5 days)

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